It wasn't a terrible start to the Republican National Convention yesterday, except for a blase speech by Melania Trump, which she claimed she spent five weeks writing but which she partly stole from Michelle Obama.
The night's keynote speech was anticipated to be a personal look into the Trumps' lives. It turned out to be a series of platitudes that left us as much in the dark about the Trumps as we were before Melania began speaking.
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We know, according to Melania, that he's a great guy and gets things done, that he's kind and he cares. Why is anyone's guess. She didn't give us any examples.
And if The Donald sounded somewhat like Barack Obama, it's probably because Melania lifted two passages nearly verbatim from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech.
After initially admitting there may have been a terrible mistake made, now the Trump campaign is denying there was any plagiarism by the First Lady wannabe or anyone else.
I was a high school administrator for five years, and I can tell you that we prosecuted students for incidents of plagiarism much less egregious than Melania's.
Watching Michelle and Melania' speeches cut together side by side, it's obvious to all but a complete nitwit that Melania cheated.
Republicans are writing this incident off; saying that Melania isn't a native speaker and that her speech was similar to Michelle's but in no way identical. Really?
The Trump campaign is going to double down on its mistakes once too often.
I still refuse to let them get away with their anti-Semitic tweet borrowed from a neo-Nazi website, and then doubling down on its innocence.
One thing is becoming clear about this candidacy: when their lips are moving, they're explaining their way out of something.
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